Hours on end of WoW continue. I have chosen to play Horde characters, which is a lot out of the norm for me considering that they're the "bad guys" and I always lean towards the "good guy" end of the spectrum. But I thought the Tauren looked pretty sweet and their story sounds more like the innocent guys caught in the middle of a battle and having to choose a side. At least that's how I justified it. So anyway, I'm a Tauren and I have to say: It's tough being a Horde member in an Alliance dominated world. Somehow somebody got a hold of the numbers, and on my server it's 3:1 Alliance to Horde, and even a bigger gap in the 55+ lvl characters.

So what? Well, Horde towns are CONSTANTLY being raided. And on a non-PVP server it's not lethal, but it certainly is annoying when you finally finish some horribly annoying quest only to go back and realize that the person you have to report to is dead. Plus you can barely carry on a conversation between all of the "The Crossroads is under attack!!" messages. But what's really irritating is that these lvl 55+ Alliance guys are picking on the STARTER towns. It takes a lot of balls to be lvl 55 and walk into a town full of lvl 6-10 characters and start blowing things up. It's like the U.S. attacking Canada. Total joke.

I convinced a friend to play and we finally met up in-game the other night. It's fun being the established "big brother" and pointing out the simple things that I wasted hours discovering like how flight paths work, where major towns are, weapon trainers, etc. I just hope he doesn't ask about fishing, because I never did get that to work.

Anyway, I continue to grind along. Where I "should" be is becoming fuzzier and fuzzier. I still can't venture into the lands that are all dark and creepy, although I have tried a few times. I learned that lvl ?? means RUN. Or, more accurately, just stand there and take your (quick) beating and then figure out how far your corpse run will be.